Caleb's Here!!!

Yeah!!! He's here! We had some minor difficulties to contend with, but both mama and baby are doing well. Kristy went into the operating room at about 5:15 and after they got her all setup she started to have issues with her blood pressure and heart rate. They called me back about 5:35 or so and told me about the issues. She was having a hard time breathing and they were giving her some oxygen to help out. The baby was delivered at 5:42 CT officially. When they went in, he had turned around and was not breech any longer, but had the cord around his neck. He was really dark, almost bluish purple when they pulled him out as I watched. They got the cord off his neck quickly and moved him over for some more checks. Within a few minutes they were able to get most of the fluids from his lungs and then advised they needed to take him to the NICU since he was still retaining a lot of fluid and was breathing heavily. We went over to show Kristy the baby and then ran off to the NICU for the official weigh in and to tackle the fluids some more. They put him on oxygen and kept trying to work the fluids out. After the initial weigh in, they told me the figures and asked that I come back after the NICU was open again in about 2 hours. I went off to see Kristy and found her in recovery. She was doing much better than before and when I saw her, I had tears of joy when I saw her, and she took them as tears of sadness and started to panic. I had to calm her down and reassure her that all is going to be fine. By just after dinner time, Kristy was moved up to her room, Amber had come back with my dad and Jennifer from school and dinner but the baby was still in NICU. My dad and I went down to check on the baby at 8:30 when NICU opened back up and held him. While we were there we took some video of the baby and some pictures to take back to Jennifer and Kristy to see. It worked out great!! By about 1:30/2am, Caleb was released from NICU and taken to the nursery. I asked that Kristy be able to go down so we could see the baby. The nurse spoke with the nursery folks and gave us a private viewing in a side nursery with Caleb. Kristy was so excited to be able to see him and hold him too. We're going to try to get some rest now and start Saturday up in a few hours.